ILGU deny Astor Trophy snub

There will be no Irish players at Fairhaven for next month’s Astor Trophy.ILGU Chief Executive Sinead Heraty has defended the decision to make Ireland’s top amateurs unavailable for selection for Great Britain and Ireland’s Astor Trophy defence next month.

At the insistence of the Irish Ladies Golf Union, Danielle McVeigh, Lisa and Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow were not considered for selection for the five-strong side which will battle Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa at Fairhaven in Lancashire from June 15-19.

“In the normal course of events we would be absolutely thrilled for the Irish players to play for a GB&I team,” Heraty said. “It is more to do with the scheduling of the Astor Trophy with the Vagliano Trophy, one after another.”

Lisa Maguire makes a mockery of Vagliano snub with historic European Individual triumph

Happy families. The Maguires celebrate Lisa’s famous victory in Holland. Picture courtesy of Leo Vogelzang.She might have been handed No 13 at registration but the tag on Lisa Maguire’s bag was no bad omen as she became the first Irish player to win the prestigious European Ladies Individual Amateur Championship at wind-lashed Noordwijk in the Netherlands.

Meadow and Maguire twins named in Curtis Cup squad

Stephanie Meadow with her former coach Han Hankey. Pic courtesy www.ijga.comStephanie Meadow has been named alongside twins Lisa and Leona Maguire in the 12-strong Great Britain & Ireland preliminary squad for the 37th Curtis Cup match against the United States at The Nairn Golf Club from June 8-10.

Curtis Cup selectors bizarrely leave out Lisa Maguire

Less than a year after her bizarre omission from the Vagliano Trophy side, the LGU selectors have left Lisa Maguire out of the Curtis Cup side to face the USA at Nairn from June 8-10.

Twin sister Leona and Royal Portrush star Stephanie Meadow made the side but the decisions by the “independent selection panel” to drop Lisa from the eight-strong team and then do an about turn on its threats to leave out Charley Hull are startling to say the least.